23andMe Scraps Health Analysis While It Fights With the FDA
http://mobile.businessweek.com/articles/2013-12-06/23andme-scraps-health-analysis-while-it-fights-with-the-fda
During an 'omics' event in the Broad, I had the opportunity to talk to two technicians who work at a local genetic testing lab. I asked them about the 23andme news, and they told me this:
- Their lab runs genetic testing that is requested by a physician, and they always have experts interpret the results for the patients.
- 23andme has a pipeline for automatic annotation of SNPs for their health analysis. Supposedly they don't have any manual curation from experts at any point plus they take all papers from literature indiscriminately.
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